{"id":715,"date":"2009-11-11T10:22:05","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T15:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/blog\/?p=715"},"modified":"2009-11-11T10:22:05","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T15:22:05","slug":"vicksburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2009\/11\/11\/vicksburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Vicksburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-719\" title=\"vicksburg2\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2009\/11\/vicksburg2.jpg\" alt=\"vicksburg2\" width=\"200\" height=\"110\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While one can always visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/vick\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Vicksburg National Military Park<\/a>, they also have a great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/history\/museum\/exhibits\/vick\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">exhibit online<\/a>. Even those who have already been to the park should take a look. The site offers short essays on different aspects of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/history\/museum\/exhibits\/vick\/siege.html\" target=\"_blank\">Vicksburg Siege<\/a> as well as related images. In addition, the exhibit uses the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/history\/museum\/exhibits\/vick\/cairo.html\" target=\"_blank\">U.S.S. Cairo <\/a>as a way to teach visitors about river warfare. One can take a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/history\/museum\/exhibits\/vick\/cairoTour.html\" target=\"_blank\">virtual tour <\/a>of the U.S.S. Cairo as well as learn more about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/history\/museum\/exhibits\/vick\/lifeAboard.html\" target=\"_blank\">life aboard <\/a>the ship. Teachers may want to check out the National Park Service\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/history\/museum\/tmc\/tmc_links.html\" target=\"_blank\">Teaching with Museum Collections<\/a>\u201d for several lesson plans that incorporate material in the Vicksburg exhibit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While one can always visit Vicksburg National Military Park, they also have a great exhibit online. Even those who have already been to the park should take a look. The site offers short essays on different aspects of the Vicksburg Siege as well as related images. In addition, the exhibit uses the U.S.S. Cairo as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,82,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war-1861-1865","category-lesson-plans","category-places-to-visit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1913,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions\/1913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}